Linux-Setup Digest #176, Volume #21 Sun, 6 May 01 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to get access to shell during Linux install ? ("Glitch")
Re: growable disk partitions (David Efflandt)
Run any distro under WinNT yet? (Robert Jay Brendel)
Re: Can I Have A Warm Welcome? ("Dave Stanton")
bind 9.1.0-10 problem timing out (Shore Linux Solutions)
Re: Max length of password? (Bj�rn T Johansen)
Re: Max length of password? (David Efflandt)
HELP: can't login (Baden Kudrenecky)
Re: XWindows loading on startup ("Darren")
Server Domain name & Host name ("hallam4")
Re: FTP??? (Raphael Quoilin)
Re: Run any distro under WinNT yet? (Michael Heiming)
Sound Card Driver for Turtle Beach (New User) (kos)
Sound Card Driver for Turtle Beach (New User) (kos)
Sound Card Driver for Turtle Beach (New User) (kos)
Re: RH7.1 - Can't telnet or SSH in from another host (Norman Levin)
Re: squid and accepting cookies? and cache? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Real Player configuration (Dave Uhring)
Re: Java SDK 1.3/RedHat 7.1 ("Steve Weiss")
Re: Run any distro under WinNT yet? ("Duane Healing")
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get access to shell during Linux install ?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 13:09:41 -0400
In article <9d20if$lcf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cedric Chausson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED](halteauspam)> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to have access rto a shell during install of Linux to use
> the ping command. The RedHat doc says a shell is accessible on virtual
> console 2 which should be accessible with CTRL-ALT-F2. But that doesnt
> work.
>
> I manage to get access to virtual consoles 1, 3,4 and 5 with the
> combination ALT and function key. But ALT-F2 doesnt work it doesnt even
> change the screen.
>
> Anyone have an idea ? For info, i'm doing RH6.2 install with network
> boot disk..
>
> Thanks in advance,
this is just a guess but did you not say that the RH docs say to use
CTRL-alt-F2? Are you not using just ALT-F2? Maybe try adding a CTRL in
there may help. If ALT works for the others it should work for F2 as
well but who knows what you are actually doing on your end or whatRH does.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: growable disk partitions
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:07:42 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 06 May 2001 09:06:11 -0700, Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a 20GB hard disk on my computer. I have installed Redhat 7.0 on
> it. During the installation, I had used 'disk druid' to create
> partitions. The following is the partition table of my disk.
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 17 136521 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 18 2480 19784047+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 18 801 6297448+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 802 1324 4200966 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 1325 1357 265041 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda8 1358 1374 136521 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 1375 1391 136521 83 Linux
> /dev/hda10 1392 1400 72261 83 Linux
>
>
> At the time of installation, I had opted for /dev/hda5 to be
> growable. This explains a large /dev/hda2 primary partition on my
> disk.
I think Disk Druid consumes the rest of your drive with an extended
partition anyway.
> Now, I'd like to create another primary partition out of the unused
> space on my disk. I need this to install FreeBSD. Unfortunately,
> /dev/hda2 won't let me do so.
>
> Can somebody suggest a way to reclaim the unused space to allow
> creation of a new primary partition?
I believe you could simply remove and recreate hda2 ending at cyl 1400
instead of 2480. However, you may need to remove the logical partitions
first and recreate them afterwords. Simply removing a partition does not
destroy anything, it just changes the partition table, as long as you have
not changed the size of existing data partitions or reformatted over
existing data.
The only problem I see is whether FreeBSD is still under the 1024 cyl boot
limitation. Check with a freebsd newsgroup. When I installed FreeBSD
4.0, its / had end before cyl 1024, but the slice could extend beyond
that. So I first put Linux on the drive and kept it under 8 GB.
Another strange thing was that the Linux fdisk I have cannot read BSD
disklabels for slices that extend beyond cyl 1024, but mount has no
trouble mounting ufs partitions beyond cyl 1024. This makes it
questionable whether Linux fdisk could handle an extended partition after
FreeBSD, although, primary ext2 partition(s) after FreeBSD is no problem.
Windows definitely steps on FreeBSD if trying to format a logical
partition after FreeBSD because it does not understand disklabels at all.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Jay Brendel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Run any distro under WinNT yet?
Date: 6 May 2001 13:30:14 -0400
I've got an employer-supplied laptop that I use as my main machine now.
Has WinNT WS on it; I'm an administrator. I'd like to use Linux for some
work, but I'm not allowed to install it to dual-boot. I can install
freeware apps, however. I remember there used to be distros that ran
under Win 95/98, but not NT. A quick search on the web made it seem
that's still the case -- is it?
Is DemoLinux another option, to run it off a CD? I've read that Linux can
read NTFS, but not write. So I have to save everything to a floppy,
right?
Thanks for any pointers,
Rob
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I Have A Warm Welcome?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:38:39 +0100
In article <eG9J6.3755$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"the-weirs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey I'm totally new here (call me Monopoly) and I'm totally freaked out
>
> Monopoly.
> OVER AND OUT!
>
>
Hi Welcome to LInux ( or GNU/LInux for the puriests)
Spend some money and buy RUNNING LINUX, published by O'Rielly. Read it at
least 3 time from cover to cover and then go buy a distro.
I have used SUSE for 3 years, but am writing this on Mandrake 7.2 box
which was the best install ever.
Cheers
Dave
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From: Shore Linux Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bind 9.1.0-10 problem timing out
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 13:44:19 -0400
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 12:29:41 -0400
From: Shore Linux Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Shore Linux Solutions
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
I am running RedHat 7.1 and I can't seem to get bind/named running
properly. Each time I try to start it (/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start) it
says that iit is starting ok however it apparently immediately times
out. Prior to running 7.1 I ran 6.2 and I had bind v8 running fine. My
second question at this point would be does anyone know of any quick or
easy tutorials/howtos etc etc on the needed file structure and syntax of
bind v9. I have looked at the man pages and the docs that came with the
package but I can't seem to figure why it is timing out. The only
examples I have been able to find are sample named.conf files. I think
the problem might be somewhere in the zones or zone files. Any and all
assistance in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Bj�rn T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Max length of password?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 19:46:46 +0200
No, I didn't.
Is there some options I can add there to increase the password length?
BTJ
On Sat, 05 May 2001 10:44:42 -0700, "Duane Healing"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Did you take a look at /etc/pam.d/passwd?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Max length of password?
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:53:42 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 05 May 2001 13:53:54 GMT, Bj�rn T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a problem with increasing the annoying default max 8 character in
> passwords under SuSE 7.x.
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to increace this lengt? I have
> tried to change PASS_MAX_LEN in /etc/login.defs but it still just checks
> the first 8 characters! :-(
I think that may be the nature of DES crypt. Since the crypted password
is only 13 characters. MD5 crypt might be able to handle longer
passwords, since the crypted passwords are much longer.
FreeBSD gives you the option of which crypt you want, but I don't recall
if I saw such an option when installing SuSE. I cannot find anything
about this in the SuSE knowledge base under crypt, MD5 or password.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baden Kudrenecky)
Subject: HELP: can't login
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baden Kudrenecky)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:12:44 GMT
Hi:
I went to start up my VA (Redhat) Linux 6.1 today,
and it booted up and gave me the login prompt. No
matter what I did, it would not accept any
login/password.
I re-booted into runlevel 1, and manually changed
the passwords on my 'root' and personal accounts, and
that didn't work either. I also went into 'linuxconf'
from runlevel 1, and was able to view all the account
information, and re-change the password on my personal
account, however, when I went to 'init 3', I once again
couldn't log in.
Does anyone have a solution?
thanks,
baden
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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows loading on startup
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:06:30 +0100
O'Banion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:llYH6.3000$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm new to the whole linux world, and I installed XWindows and Gnome
during
> the initial install. I am running Debian 2.2. The problem that I am
having
> is that XWindows loads automatically on boot. I've been trying to figure
> out how to keep it from loading, but haven't figured it out. Can anybody
> point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks
That odd. I don't know your distribution of Linux so its anatomy might be
unusual to me. Does it boot into windows before or after the login?
if its before, then you will need to look in your inittab file usually
stored in the /etc directory. There should be a default runlevel setting in
there somewhere and its probably set to 5. Check your documentation on your
distribution's on runlevels and set yours accordingly.
If it goes into Xwindows after you login then it is invoked by your logging
script and that is dependent on what shell you are using
Confused? you will be :-)
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From: "hallam4" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server Domain name & Host name
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:30:31 +0100
Just setting up my server (redHat 7.1) via linuxconf
What do I need to put as the Host name+Domain?
I have checked all the how to's Man pages and other web sites!!
Background:
I will be setting this up with a cable modem connection to my ISP, with 2 x
Win98 boxes connected to the Linux Server - hopefully using it to get on the
internet for web and mail services (+ ICQ & MSN Messenger). I will also be
using it to test web sites before publishing to the net.
thanks,
Dave
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From: Raphael Quoilin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: FTP???
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:25:44 +0200
dubcaller wrote:
[...]
> However, using different ports provides better security.
Why?
[...]
Regards,
Raphael
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Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:42:32 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Run any distro under WinNT yet?
Robert Jay Brendel wrote:
>
> I've got an employer-supplied laptop that I use as my main machine now.
> Has WinNT WS on it; I'm an administrator. I'd like to use Linux for some
> work, but I'm not allowed to install it to dual-boot.
You're an admin and not allowed to install the OS you want?
Go and get a new job.
> I can install
> freeware apps, however. I remember there used to be distros that ran
> under Win 95/98, but not NT. A quick search on the web made it seem
> that's still the case -- is it?
You can run Linux within NT with help of VMware, however, most
people I know, do it the other way round, it's supposed to be
much more stable, I've been told.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card Driver for Turtle Beach (New User)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:45:47 GMT
Hi,
I just installed Mandrake8 and although my Santa Cruz card is detected
as sound fusion,
the sound quality is pretty hollow. Is there a commercial source for
sound card drivers?
Or is there anyway I can make it sound better?
Kos
My first Linux and loving it!!
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card Driver for Turtle Beach (New User)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:47:19 GMT
Hi,
I just installed Mandrake8 and although my Santa Cruz card is detected
as sound fusion,
the sound quality is pretty hollow. Is there a commercial source for
sound card drivers?
Or is there anyway I can make it sound better?
Kos
My first Linux and loving it!!
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card Driver for Turtle Beach (New User)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:48:02 GMT
Hi,
I just installed Mandrake8 and although my Santa Cruz card is detected
as sound fusion,
the sound quality is pretty hollow. Is there a commercial source for
sound card drivers?
Or is there anyway I can make it sound better?
Kos
My first Linux and loving it!!
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Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 13:51:42 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH7.1 - Can't telnet or SSH in from another host
Aaron Kaase wrote:
>
> RedHat's knowledge base says to type 'rpm -qa | grep telnet' to make
> sure the telnet server is running. It is... Then it says to (as root)
> go into the /etc/xinetd.d directory and make sure that telnet is
> enabled.
>
> I typed 'cat telnet' and found "disable = yes" so I changed it to no.
> This made it so when I type 'telnet localhost', I was able to get a
> login prompt. (Before it said connection refused.)
>
> HOWEVER, I still can't access the system from another computer and I
> have no idea why. Any ideas? I can telnet OUT of the system just fine,
> just not IN to the computer.
** are you trying to log in as root? If so, you need to have your device
address listed in /etc/securetty for login to work.
--
Norman Levin
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: squid and accepting cookies? and cache?
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:53:10 +0200
On Sat, 5 May 2001, AS wrote:
> I am running squid server at 3128 port in my debian box, even though I
> have accept cookies set up in netscape, I cannot receive the cookies (I
> need it for some site to login). How can I set up squid to accept
> cookies?
For me cookies worked out-of-the-box (RedHat 7.0 with squid
2.3.STABLE4). I don't why you experience this problem.
> And also read somewhere that I shoud leave the memory and disk caches at
> 0 KBytes. If I do that, it takes longer to load the pages. I have
> /home/x/.netscape/cache/ as the cache folter. Do I need to change this
> folder? If so, to what?
This means that it won't cache (remember) any pages and they have to be
loaded from internet every time. If you do not cache any pages, pages
will load just as slow as when loading them directly from the
internet. Why do you want a proxy then?
So use what disk space, you have got and all memory, you can free for
squid.
Rasmus
--
-- [ Rasmus 'M�ffe' B�g Hansen ] --------------------------------------
There is no insanity, just different perceptions of reality.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Real Player configuration
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:56:54 -0500
Scott wrote:
> Hmmm. You may have missed the point. I think those scripts
> did run. The associations appear to be there, in netscape.
>
> I'm just wondering why the auto-configure feature can't
> find a server, and the only whay to get it to work
> is to setup real player to use only HTTP protocol.
> I figured it should work on install, and I shouldn't
> have to mess with the preferences.
>
> -Scott
>
Mouse click on Content -> Live Stations will bring up Nutscrape at
real.com. Select your content.
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From: "Steve Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java SDK 1.3/RedHat 7.1
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 14:47:13 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Tsao"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is actually more a problem in Sun's JVM than Linux. The newest JDK
(1.3.1 release candidate) fixes the problem.
-Steve
> Hi,
> I am a new user to Linux. But I would suggest Linux users to read a
> box
> product's release note when installing a new RH version.
> In RedHat 7.1 release note, it clearly says Java SDK 1.3 won't work
> with it. And it also provides the solution
> I think linux products become more and more complecated (and release
> deadline become more and more critical to marketing). It's not
> surprising that linux is sharing more and more problems with Microsoft.
> Some people will become experts in solving this kind of annoyances. This
> is also an opportunity. Isn't it?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Run any distro under WinNT yet?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 12:03:09 -0700
You might take a look at vmware. It is a commercial product that allows
you to run Linux, or any other os, on a virtual machine running on top of
the host os.
See http://www.vmware.com/ for further details.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In a feverish moment of semi-lucidity, "Robert Jay Brendel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flailed at the keyboard thusly:
> I've got an employer-supplied laptop that I use as my main machine now.
> Has WinNT WS on it; I'm an administrator. I'd like to use Linux for
> some work, but I'm not allowed to install it to dual-boot. I can
> install freeware apps, however. I remember there used to be distros
> that ran under Win 95/98, but not NT. A quick search on the web made it
> seem that's still the case -- is it?
> Is DemoLinux another option, to run it off a CD? I've read that Linux
> can read NTFS, but not write. So I have to save everything to a floppy,
> right?
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Rob
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